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On her first day of school, Sofia – a Brazilian teenager who has recently arrived in London – is bullied by a group of British students. Homesick and alienated from the world around her, she meets Lauren, a British-Nigerian teenager who shows her Sun Rah, a world entirely of her own making in a nearby park, where they make their home together.
A short documentary about the Bossa Nova, a style of zamba developed in the 1960s in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
"And God said, Take thy son, and bring him to the land which I will show thee."
Paul is attracted to bears. Hugo is a needy bear. Everything seems to be perfect until one condition can change everything.
How Do You See Me? is a Brazilian documentary feature that entwines both experienced actors and beginners to explore the hardships and the happiness that are inherent to the job when detached from the glam and glitz of the gossip industry, creating a diverse and comprehensive mosaic of what it means to be an actor in Brazil, a country so full of contradictions. The film brings forward a reality that the masses usually don't get to know: the men and women moved by a deep passion for acting and touching people. With Julio Adrião, Matheus Nachtergaele, José Celso Martinez, Cássia Kis, Nanda Costa, Babu Santana, Luciano Vidigal and Letícia Sabatella, among others.
A film director and his wife retreat to the countryside to escape personal and professional struggles. With their autistic son, they seek a fresh start in a freer, more natural life.
On Christmas, Lucas is tormented by anonymous calls that reveal the secret hidden inside his home.
In the film adaptation of the show “Abominável”, created from texts by different dead authors, a body crossed by war and passion breaks free from a violin case.
Marcus is not having a good day. He never seems to have a good day. He has to smash in his rear window just to get out of his Volkswagen Beetle, having parked it too close between two other cars. He has to do all the dirty work in the office, while his spoiled rich kid colleague cooks the books for profit and shamelessly flirts with all his female co-workers. He’s attracted to his next-door neighbor who gets beaten and cheated upon by her boyfriend, but she doesn’t want to leave him. And he gets robbed at knife-point right outside his apartment building. Marcus manages to take the knife and chase away his attacker, but not before he gets stabbed in the shoulder. The incident awakens something dark in Marcus. He becomes a man with a mission, determined to set right all the injustice done to him. But ones the blood starts flowing, there’s no going back.
Based on Zuza's testimony, the plot narrates the final of the Julio Ramalho Cup, a lowland soccer championship, in 1950. To face the rival team, Zuza had his friend Dico, later nicknamed Pelé.
It's a film about the world today, about the need for a revolution, an uprising of the masses against the exploiters, so that the financial system can be completely rethought. It's an anarchist vision of the chaos we need for this change to occur (because anarchism is not mess, it's mutual support and solidarity). Of course, in 4 minutes there's no way to theorize about something so complex, but given the inequalities of today we have to do something, even if it's a short 4-minute short that, perhaps, awakens the inner revolutionary of those who watch (or not ).
Paying tribute to the master of anime, Hayao Miyazaki, Brazilian filmmaker Chris Tex and a handful of dedicated friends have created a truly memorable fan film, faithfully recreating a passage from NAUSICAÄ OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND in live action.
A blind man witnesses a homicide and is followed to his house by the murderer
A vampire awakens thirsty for blood and attacks defenseless young women until he is drawn into a fun orgy with an analconda.
The adventures of a young man who becomes a bandit due to circumstances beyond his control. He seeks revenge for the death of his father, a defenseless victim of a powerful landowner who terrorized farmers in rural Bahia in the early decades of the century.
Two young go to the streets in order to meet "one of the best participants of what represents the street market": the Pigeon
In the 19th century, bandits massacre the inhabitants of a farmhouse. One hundred years later, it is turned into a hotel and the murderers and their victims are reincarnated as the guests. Strange phenomena and death soon occur.
Could a cruel doubt about eggs, which has consumed humanity's thoughts for thousands of years, be the starting point for a universal observation of the new millennium?And is this observation true? Or is it just a symptom of the social disease that is affecting humanity post-social media?Scrambled Eggs theorizes about this.
Miro is a lonely man who lives alone among his memories in his apartment until he receives the foreigner Santi.
A silent, black-and-white train journey through Eastern European winter landscapes takes a man to a Croatian village. An arrival in the cinematic tradition of 1920s avantgarde, with the railway and industrial modernity as a favourite graphical motif, which takes him past a fish market and a strange procession, and finally home to a small family, where the grandparents drink tea, smoke cigarettes and chat cheerfully. The image of a young woman burns itself onto the celluloid - and into the filmmaker's consciousness.
A day in the life of Sandra, a 28-year-old black woman whose daily life is strongly marked by the presence of three men: her son, her husband, and her father, and intertwined by the force of ancestry and the sacred.
Juan Manuel arrives to Montevideo for the wedding of his friend Beto. He decides to organize the bachelor's party in 24 hours. Juan Manuel and his friends have to avoid several obstacles to achieve the party Beto deserves. The constant inconveniences put the wedding in danger.
Brasil Paralelo's new documentary brings together testimonies from residents, experts and former members of criminal organizations to show how the public security crisis took hold in Rio.
Every man wants Maria Helena... she has a pimp called Marcelao who wants her to do porno movies. Tired of everything, she leaves everything for real love and passion.
A decadent hooker, her pimp and the bordello's gay cleaner fight over the gigolo's missing money, with the utmost mental cruelty.
A short film.
In an enchanted world, five little princesses study at a magic school. Despite being diligent, Cindy, Bianca, Hime, Iriá and Zade always get into trouble.
Amid the civil-military dictatorship implanted with the 1964 coup, Sergio Muniz had the idea of making a documentary about the action of the Death Squad. At the time, the press still had some freedom to disseminate the work of these death squads formed by police officers of various ranks, and that he acted on the outskirts of cities like Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. The victims of police repression (as today) were men, poor and black, and this condition is supposed criminals.
Film portrait of Austrian intellectual, journalist and writer Otto Maria Carpeaux, who emigrated to Brazil to flee World Ward II, as his insights on the 1964 Brazilian dictatorship.
In Curitiba, the group that leads music label Meia-Vida is responsible for a secret portion of the city, hidden behind secluded apartments, dimly lit rooms and crooked, labyrinthine songs, responsible for one of the most fascinating musical movements in the country.
An artist penetrates him/herself with a cob of transgenic corn in the middle of a field, unawares that death is near. His/her sister Ana, who has been following him/her with his/her ashes, embarks on a journey into the Amazon forest that will become a quest as spiritual as it is erotic.
171 - It fools me that I like. It is a documentary about short stories and storytellers with almost hypnotic gifts to involve the listeners, the peculiar figure of the "171" (Brazilian embezzlement criminals), who can be as much a criminal swindler as a guy with good speech
An experimental short for a TV Coragem channel program.
The artistic career and daily life of actress Maria Gladys.
In this disarming and personal documentary, Gonçalves explores precisely what it is that is wrong with him. His physical disability is obvious, but doctors have never managed to provide a diagnosis. As he undergoes a series of tests, he paints a picture of his life today and looks back over his past, assisted by a vast collection of VHS videos, for which he sometimes provides commentary to explain the context.
Erotic comedy in 3 segments: "A B. de Ouro" (The Golden A..), "O Homem dos Quatro Chifres" (The Man with Four Horns) e "O Homem, a Mulher e o Etc. Numa Noite de Loucuras" (Man, Woman and Etc in a Crazy Night). All three stories are about single, married and divorced men, and their sexual adventures with women.
A young rock singer meets his childhood heroine, a famous singer who is now wallowing in alcohol and sex.
On an ordinary afternoon at a train station, the lives of Nando and Breno are transformed by an unexpected encounter. Both living in stable relationships, they find themselves drawn to a sudden passion that challenges all of their certainties. As the attraction between them grows, Nando and Breno embark on a love affair that tests the strength of their marriages. Amidst a whirlwind of emotions, they are forced to confront their choices and question what they truly want from their lives.